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Chapter 3. Post-Installation Tasks on Windows
Review the following information after installing IBM Informix Dynamic Server.
v “Working with the Installation”
v “IDS Program Group” on page 3-2
v “Initializing and Starting the Database Server” on page 3-3
v “Database Server Configuration After Installation” on page 3-4
Working with the Installation
After installing IBM Informix Dynamic Server, determine how much of the
database server setup the installation application has completed and what actions
you must do before putting the server in production.
The installation sets up a database server that is ready to use and can run on your
system automatically. But you may still want to perform some basic enhancements
before you put the server in production. These tasks show you ways to control the
way IDS runs on your system.
If have completed a more advanced installation of IDS, these post-installation tasks
might be required in order to work with the database server.
Tip: When you initialize a server, a shortcut is added to the Start menu. To run
commands for an initialized server, click Start → All Programs → IBM Informix
Dynamic Server 11.50 → servername → .
The following tasks are covered in the next sections of the documentation:
v Starting the database server manually.
v Setting up the database server to start whenever Windows is launched.
v Stopping the database server.
Two IDS features that require post-installation configuration are the following:
– Global Language Support (GLS) is a feature that enables you to configure the
database server to use a locale other than the default locale, which is U.S.
English. For more information on how to create databases that use the
diacritics, collating sequence, and monetary and time conventions of a
different language, see the IBM Informix GLS User’s Guide.
– IBM Informix Storage Manager (ISM) is a feature that can be used for ON-Bar
backup-and-restores. See the IBM Informix Storage Manager Administrator’s
Guide for more information.
Installation Automatic Actions
Before you begin manual post-installation tasks, it is helpful to know some of the
major tasks the installation application has done. A typical installation (and
possibly a custom installation, depending on your choices during setup) performs
the following actions to make the database server ready to run on Windows:
v Configured and installed the database server as a Windows service.
v Created an informix user account and an Informix-Admin administrative group.
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